Anton Korobov
Number of games in database: 627
Years covered: 1998 to 2015
Last FIDE rating: 2699(2664 rapid, 2705 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2723Overall record: +190 -87 =179 (61.3%)*
* Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
171 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

Good results flowed early. A strong second with 9.5/14 behind Zahar Efimenko at the double round robin Governor’s Cup that was held in 2001. This was followed by outright first with 7/9 at the round robin Summer Youth Board 2 Boys in 2002 and =1st at the X Anibal Open (2003) in Spain. There followed somewhat of a hiatus in his career, where he was semi-retired in practical terms for about 4 years before he re-entered serious tournament play with =1st at the 3rd Yefim Geller Memorial Tournament in Odessa in 2007, 2nd at the 2008 Czech Open, 1st at the Pardubice Open in 2009 and 2010, 1st at the double round robin Prince Mohammed International Tour in 2009, =1st at the New Year’s All-Ukrainian Open and a strong 2nd behind Le Quang Liem in Aeroflot Open (2010). He also won the Abu Dhabi Masters in 2010. In 2011, he came first in the Nakhchivan Open, this being followed by =1st at the Aeroflot Open (2012) with 6.5/9 placing 2nd on tiebreak behind Mateusz Bartel and ahead of Pavel Eljanov, Fabiano Caruana, Dmitry Andreikin and many other GMs He also took out first place at the double round robin 1st International GM Round Robin Chess Tournament in New Delhi in Dec 2012.

In January 2014, he placed =2nd with 6.5/9 at the Vladimir Dvorkovich Memorial held in Taganrog in Russia. In April 2014, he scored 6/9 - par for rating - placing =10th at the 16th Dubai Open. In July 2015 he was =1st with 8/11 at the 8th Annual K. Asrian Memorial, albeit 2nd on tiebreak behind Mikhailo Oleksienko.

- the children’s national team in the Children’s Olympiad of 2000, scoring an individual gold for board 4, and helping his team to win the silver medal;

- European Club Cup in 2002, 2010, 2011, 2012 scoring team bronze and individual silver for his team PGMB Luhansk in the European Club Cup (2010). Playing first reserve for SOCAR Baku in the European Club Cup (2014), he won both individual and team gold;

- Ukrainian Team Championships in 2001, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011 scoring four individual and three team golds, one team and one individual silver, and two team and one individual bronze;

- European U18 Team Championships of 2001 and 2002 where he helped his team to team gold and silver respectively, also winning individual silver in 2002 playing board 2;

- European Youth Team Championship 2002;

- Arab Club Cups Championship 2003 and 2006 in Amman, Jordan, scoring individual silver and team bronze in the 2006 league, for his team Al-Mokawlon;

- Moscow team Championships 2007;

- Czech Liga and Extraliga of 2009, 2011, and 2012-13, and 2015;

- Croatian A League 2014 for the ŠK Zagreb club, winning individual silver and team gold.

He also scored an individual gold for Kharkov at the All-Ukrainian Games (Chess).

In 2014, he made his first appearance for Ukraine in an Olympiad, playing board 4 at the Chess Olympiad (2014), scoring 4.5/7, his team placing 6th.

Rapid and Blitz

Korobov had an exceptional year in the rapid form of the game in 2013. He scored 9.5/11 to place =4th in the European Rapid Championship and won the European Blitz Championship with 18.5/22, these events being in December 2013 in Warsaw. 2014 produced more modest results, including =3rd with 8/11 at the Ukraine Rapid Championship, 6.5/15 at the FIDE World Rapid Championship (2014), =2nd with 8.5/11 at the Ukraine Blitz Championship and 12.5/21 at the FIDE World Blitz Championship (2014). he scored an unplaced 16.5/30 at the European Blitz Championship but scored 9/11 at the European rapid Championship to place =5th, half a point from the shared lead.

Ratings and Rankings

Korobov made it into the top 100 ranked players in the world in November 2009 and has remained there since. He first crossed 2700 in September 2012. His highest rating to date was 2723 in January 2014 when he also reached his equal best world ranking of #25,

I mentioned the interview to someone that knows him and they said it was "his usual style" and that "usually Kramnik feels himself as the best ironic guy together with Svidler but now we have Korobov".

JoergWalter: <<twinlark>
I mentioned the interview to someone that knows him and they said it was "his usual style" and that "usually Kramnik feels himself as the best ironic guy together with Svidler but now we have Korobov".>

KlingonBorgTatar: To be a Ukrainian National Chempion is no small feat. He follows in the footsteps of the greats : David Bronstein and Isaak Boleslavsky. And Feodor Bogatyrchuk ,Ukrainian medical radiologist and Soviet Chempion, who has a plus score against no other than Mikhail Botvinnik. 3-0 if I may add.

To be knocked out by Kamnik is no disgrace. Kramnik afterall beat Kasparov to become World Champion.

Watch out, this Cowboy Korobov, will still make waves , as he has just done.

Za Mir!!

This young man has already made his mark and will still go further! Za Mir !!

Conrad93: Sergei Karjakin:
"I am going to play for Russia and I am going to live in Russia, most likely. This decision was made because I didn't have enough support inside the country, in Ukraine. And I also need to train with good coaches and there are a few good coaches in Russia, for example Yuri Dokhoian, who worked with Garry Kasparov and now in this tournament he is working with me. So it's mostly because of the coaches."

When you talk about the support, can you talk about it a bit more? People have suggested that it also has to do with money, is this true?

"OK, I had a little bit support from the private sponsors, but I almost didn't have any support from the Federation. It's not like in Russia, where you have very big support from the Federation."

Check It Out: I watched the Korobov interview with Susan Polgar and Lawrence Trent and it was funny. On the one hand Korobov said he quit chess because he doesn't like the traveling and would rather just stay at home. On the other, when asked if he was happy to advanced to the next round he was ambivalent so they asked if he just wanted to go home, to which he was also ambivalent because he had some unidentified problems at home.

Caissanist: Korobov played in the Moscow Open this year, so far as I know the only Ukrainian to do so. I guess it was worth his while, since he ultimately tied for second. It must have been an interesting trip.

Penguincw: Congrats to Anton Korobov for remaining the only player perfect at European Individual Championship (2015) through 4 rounds. The average rating of his opposition has been 2558, but he entered the tournament as the 11th seed. Tomorrow is a rest day, and after that, he'll have white against top seed Navara.

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